Lawyers for Matthew Cordle, 22, said they entered the not-guilty
plea so a new judge could be randomly assigned, according to
CBS News. Under Ohio law, a guilty plea makes it hard to get
a new judge, according to ABC.

Cordle's lawyers said their client is "riddled with guilt" for
causing the wrong-way collision and plans to plead guilty on
Sept. 18, CBS reported.

Judge Julie Lynch, the first judge in the case, told ABC he'd
committed to a guilty plea on Wednesday. Lynch told ABC she
thinks his lawyers were trying to game the system and get a new
judge because she said she didn't know how she'd sentence him. He
faces 8 years in prison.

"Once you commit to pleading guilty, there are only one a few
questions left: What's going to be the sentence? And who
determines that? The judge — and which judge you get — can make a
big difference," ABC chief legal affairs correspondent Dan Abrams
said.

Cordle's video, called "I killed a man,"
has been viewed 2 million times on YouTube. It was made as a
promo video for a startup called "Because I Said I Would," which
bills itself as "a social movement dedicated to bettering
humanity through the power of a promise."